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THE HISTORY OF K L I F IS BACK!!!

S

Steve Eberhart

After a year of issues with the original server company, I am pleased to announce the return of THE HISTORYOF KLIF!
The new URL is www.klif1190.com
As always, it is a work in progress!

If you have any images or audio or stories from the golden years of the Mighty 1190, feel free to contact me.

Happy Thanksgiving!
Steve
 
Thanks Steve, I am very Thankful for that. When I first saw the site a few years ago, I spent the WHOLE day there, didn't get anything else done. Great job!
 
Steve... TWO WORDS! T H A N K Y O U!!!!!!!

I don't know if I ever said this before... but that is one of the GREATEST websites about the history of one radio station I have ever seen! VERY WELL DONE!

Once again, Thank you!

Just a thought

Dave Michaels
Davradio Productions
North Texas Sports Network
 
Great news, Steve! There are about a million WABC tribute sites and the great work of Texas pioneers
often doesn't get the attention it deserves.
 
Yes indeed, Steve. Thanks for getting it back on line. I noticed that you got a nice mention today over at www.radiodailynews.com/
 
Nurse Jeff and I've been trying for months to access your excellent tribute to the Mighty 11~Ninety! Thanks for bringing it back for us to enjoy all over again! Especially interesting is McLendon's decision to boost nighttime power at the expense of coverage. To this day, we don't know of another facility with a total of 16 towers!
 
And here's another:

"In an interview in the 1980's, McLendon told of whenever he bought a radio station, in the initial days, he would give his advertising away free of charge to anyone wishing to come aboard. Certainly this was a short-lived arrangement in each city, but his point was to show the advertiser the business he could generate for them.

In the same interview, he expressed his belief that an owner should put all of their effort into programming and the sales will follow."
 
Fantastic news and site, Steve! I especially enjoy the old studio pictures. I am a sucker for that type of stuff. ;D Keep it up!

R
 
Steve, this stuff is amazing. The pictures of McLendon, Keyes and was that Irving Harrigan?! Nice! And as a self-proclaimed history dork of the highest order, the JFK stuff just gives me chills.

Seriously, thank you brother. You are doing most of us a priceless service. ;)
 
Great job as always, Steve.

Part of WBAP's history is indeed written already...1922-48...as part of Richard Schroeder's master's thesis on file at UTA's Special Collections dept in the main library. (Wish it were online, but it's not.) Schroeder is the Greenville TX-based radio/TV historian who wrote the wonderful book, "Texas Signs On." From 1948-on, his thesis mostly covers WBAP-TV. Even tracking the last 60 years of WBAP-AM would be a chore. Frank Mills, Jim Byron and so many others who kept the radio side going in those days are long dead. At least Bill Mack, Don Harris and others are still around who could tell the 1970-on story, beginning especially with the end of the timeshare agreement with WFAA-AM.

Meanwhile, I've got tribute sites set up for KBOX, KDNT and a couple more. Jack Schell is working on one for KVIL, and so is someone else independently of Jack, IIRC. And John Lewis does a wonderful site about KXOL.

I think KFJZ would be a great one to do, also...with its roots transcending even KDKA, going back to 1917. Someone did try an audio history of KFJZ; I believe it's in three parts, and it was being sold on the web just a few years back. Still, a lot of territory to cover.
 
Re: THE HISTORY OF K L I F IS BACK!!!

Hey Guys:

After reading the site I still can't figure out when KLIF offically went to Top 40. (Feb 1954??)

Would anybody know when did KLIF start its Top 40 format?

Thanks

T.J.
 
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